Simple here is how I compare it to a religion: 1) the study of it is a disciplinee, an academic religion. 2) Nowhere has it worked 3) Where people have tried to fit it in place to make it work the facts of the economic modes of production and their natural order of progression disagrees with the theory. I.e. the throw-off of feudalism in the United States by revolution prior to the expulsion of slavery in the United States. 1) Revolt against feudalism July 4th, 1776, removal of slavery 1865 (They occurred in the wrong order making the theory completely incorrect and it occurred prior to the invention of the theory)

1. I think - Marxist revolution in Russia occurred with simultaneous modes of production in place feudalism, and ancient slavery (i.e. serfdom at the same time) So there was no progression only evolution, change.

2. As my sovietologist professor said, "Never become a Marxist Revolutionary, once the revolution occurs they kill all of those because they are never satisfied - true (Stalinist purges).

So, when a theory cannot be tested by hypothesis and repeatable a\experiments, the theory cannot be proven and anyone who accepts it, accepts it only as a belief system. There is no real basis to accept it other than on belief that someone told you the theory was true. Since, it is outside the known sphere of God, the alternative is pagan and so hence, pagan religion based on nothing